ecstatic - Story 38441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah hummed, a tune she'd just made up, as she organized her desk. Sunshine streamed through the window, catching the dust motes dancing in the air. Her textbooks seemed less daunting, the assigned readings less tedious. Everything felt… right. She caught herself grinning at her reflection in the mirror, her cheeks flushed. The air in the dorm room felt lighter, easier to breathe. Her roommate, Emily, had been acting so strange lately.

"Hey, Sarah!" Emily chirped, entering the room, a book clutched to her chest. Her eyes darted around, lingering on Sarah's desk. "Ready for the party tonight?"

Sarah clapped her hands together. "Absolutely! I can't wait!" She felt a bubble of happiness welling up inside her.

Emotion: ecstatic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.16 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.15

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion ecstatic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 ecstatic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the ecstatic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the ecstatic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.588
`ecstatic`	0.560
`de`	0.559
`🤩`	0.548
`overjoyed`	0.547

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.678
`😞`	-0.500
`ness`	-0.405
`😔`	-0.368
`😥`	-0.359